Because Blizzard decided not to update the UI elements, they show up as massive, heavily pixeled icons on PC. I appreciate that the game comes with an unlocked frame rate and a full range of graphics options on PC, but they still look terrible when maxed out. But I didn’t expect it to look so bad, either.

It looks terribleĭiablo Immortal is a mobile game, so I never expected it to look as good as the recent footage we’ve seen on Diablo IV. The Diablo community has made it abundantly clear that it didn’t want an “out of season April Fool’s joke,” and Blizzard’s port to PC rubs salt in the wound. Playing Diablo Immortal on PC feels like running an Android app through some bunk emulator on Windows. It’s insulting enough to insist that you download the iOS or Android version on every other loading screen, clearly showing where Blizzard wants you to play. Neither of those games have obscenely large menu elements on their PC versions, and they don’t have references to inputs that aren’t even possible on most PCsĪ seamless experience is important for a game Blizzard expects players to dump hundreds of hours into (and hundreds of dollars, it turns out), but Diablo Immortal doesn’t go to those lengths. Games like Fortnite and Genshin Impact work on PC and mobile, but they’re built specifically for those platforms. From the opening screen that reads “Tap to Play,” it’s clear that Diablo Immortal is a mobile port, not a game you can play across PC and mobile. Fitbit Versa 3īuilt for mobile Andy Boxall/Digital Trendsĭiablo Immortal is built for mobile first, which is one of the reasons our gaming editor, Giovanni Colantonio, enjoyed the game so much in the first place.

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